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How to get into the Summer Exhibition? Try this advice

How to get into the Summer Exhibition? Try this advice

By Louise Cohen

Published 7 July 2015

We asked the artists selected for this year’s Summer Exhibition to share their secrets, and tell us their personal rules for making art. Here’s what they said.

One of our missions as an art institution is to champion the practise of contemporary art, and to provide a voice for art and artists. To that end, we’ve been asking the artists at the heart of the Academy – our Royal Academicians, and the artists in our schools – to share their creative wisdom. What does it mean to be an artist, and how do you do it? Now we’re asking the newest members of our artist community, the accepted artists of this year’s Summer Exhibition.

Advice for an aspiring artist

Try to accept the feeling of not knowing what you’re doing, because if you know what you are doing you are not creating.

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